Prologue
书迷正在阅读:我成了五个成年人的年轻后妈 , 十年忠犬追妻路 , 穿书之这剧情不对 , 炼丹师的现代修真日常 , [综]拥有一把小狐丸是一种怎样的体验 , 囚宠 , 先生,求你疼疼我 , 关键词 , 一日欢 , 平生行万里 , 引诱小娇妻(重生) , 穿成守寡的恶毒男配
prologue spoken by mr. woods on his be-night, monday, 16th april, 1787. when, by a generous public's kind acclaim, that dearest meed is granted—ho fame; waen here your favour is the actor's lot, nor even the man in private life fot; what breast so dead to heavenly virtue's glow, but heaves impassion'd with the grateful throe? poor is the task to please a barb'rous throng, it needs no siddons' powers in southern's song; but here an a nation, fam'd afar, fenius, learning high, as great in war. hail, caledonia, name for ever dear! before whose sons i'm honour'd to appear? where every sce, every nobler art, that inform the mind or mend the heart, is known; as grateful nations oft have found, far as the rude barbarian marks the bound. philosophy, no idle pedant dream, here holds her search by heaven-taught reason's beam; here history paints with elegand force the tide of empire's fluctuating course; here douglas forms w